Laundry machinery



J. W. SPAULDING. ,LAUNDBY MACH|NERY. APPLICATION FJLED MAY 21. 1918.

'1 04,712; Patented May 27, 1919.

lNVE/VTO/ A TT ORNE Y JOHN W. SPAULDING, OIE SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

LAUNDRY MACHINERY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 2'7, 1919.

Application filed May 21, 1918. Serial No. 235,850.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN W. SPAULDING, citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of WVashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Laundry Machinery, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in laundry machinery and has for its principal object; to provide an improved and novel attachment to a mangle for returning clothes from the discharge end of a mangle to the feed end to be reironed; to provide inclined track pivotally mounted on a mangle frame and a reciprocating car on the said track together with means for tilting the track about its pivot point. In laundry work it is usual to iron all flat work in a mangle and sometimes the work is not dry enough to fold and must be passed through the mangle again. Applicants device is designed to facilitate the conveying of the work to the feed end of the mangle again.

Other objects will appear as my invention is more fully explained in the following specification, illustrated in the accompany ing drawings and pointed out in the appended claim.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my device shown attached to a fragment of a mangle. Fig. 2 is a plan view of my track. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a fragment of my car. .Fig. t is an enlarged sectional elevation of my track and a fragment of a mangle.

Referring more particularly to the drawings numeral 1 indicates side frames of a mangle between which are positioned ironing rolls 2 and upon the top of which brackets 3 are attached. A track section 4 is pivoted to brackets 3 and the rails of the track run parallel to and above the side frames 1. A car frame 5 is mounted on wheels 6 which run on the track r. The car frame is covered with a wire netting 7 upon which the clothes Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Washington, D. G.

rest. The ends of the track section are connected to the mangle frame by means of toggles 8 which are connected together in pairs on'each side of the mangle by rods 9 so that when one toggle is extended the thereto connected toggle is folded up. It will be apparent that the track section will be inclined to the left and when thrown in the opposite positions that the track will be oppositely inclined. The car will run down the inclined track and may be reciprocated by changing the inclination of the track.

When the work to be returned has been loaded on the car at one end of the mangle the track is tilted and the car run down to the opposite end of the mangle. Upturned ends on the track prevent the car from leaving the track.

Vhile I have shown a particular form of embodiment of my invention, I am aware that many minor changes therein will readily suggest themselves to others skilled in the without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, and I therefore desire to avoid being limited to the exact form shown and described. Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is

In a mangle the combination of side frames, a track pivotally mounted to the upper portion of said frames, and means for inclining the track selective in a predetermined direction with respect to its pivot points, said means including pairs of toggles arranged on opposite sidesof said track and connected thereto and to the said frames, the toggles of each pair being connected together, a car mounted on said track and arranged to roll on the track in the direction of its inclination, whereby work may be conveyed from one end of the mangle to the opposite end when the track is inclined.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

JOHN W. SPAULDING.

Commissioner of Petefitl, 

